Hovering hurricane hellishness
(Aug. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — The dread, unspoken but real, starts growing along the Gulf Coast at this time of year. The dread isn’t helped when the first sentence of […]
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Nixon’s exit at 50, seen from two angles
Two columns, from very different standpoints, related to the 50th anniversary of President Nixon resigning from office. To read each full column, follow the link embedded in each headline. Speechwriter […]
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Carville and Hillyer, writing together: Yes, there are things to agree on
(July 4) As a lifelong liberal (James) and a lifelong conservative (Quin), we have been on opposite sides of almost every election in memory. There are things on which we […]
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In a Louisiana-based case, Justice Barrett harms free speech
[June 29, The Advocate/Times-Picayune] In a decision written by Louisiana native Amy Coney Barrett overruling lower-court judges from the state, on a case whose main plaintiff was a local anti-vaccine […]
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Court blocks Biden’s transgender locker room mandate
(June 14) The Biden administration suffered a well-deserved defeat, albeit only an interim one, in its effort to make federal law favor transgender ideology ahead of the rights of biological […]
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Capital punishment via nitrogen is ‘cruel and unusual’
(May 24) MOBILE, Alabama, and NEW ORLEANS — What part of the words “cruel and unusual” do lawmakers in Louisiana and Alabama not understand? Imposing outlandish cruelty while inviting a […]
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Democrats should convince Biden to retire
(May 27) National Democratic leaders really should listen to legendary Democratic strategist James Carville and then go a step beyond. They should find a way to push President Joe Biden […]
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A partial mea culpa from me to Garret Graves
(The Advocate/T-P, May 22) For more than four decades I have been a fierce critic of the standards, or lack thereof, that prevail in too many outlets for American journalism. […]
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Louisiana Gov. Landry is on a bad power trip
(Advocate/Times-Picayune, May 19) Whatever Gov. Jeff Landry is up to, it’s not conservatism as I’ve known it for 60 years now. It’s just a vaguely attitudinally right-wing power play. […]
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Louisiana redistricting ruling makes Supreme Court look bad
(May 1) In its reasonable decision to throw out Louisiana’s congressional redistricting plan on Wednesday, a federal judicial panel implicitly highlighted, yet again, the confusing mess both Congress and the Supreme Court have […]
